Meraki provides easy to use and comprehensive APIs connected with our highly programmable, cloud-based network architecture. Our APIs are free to use and easy to integrate into other applications. Meraki’s development community is growing quickly and sharing their open source code.

Alexa integration for the admin with their hands full.

Just say "Alexa ask Meraki why is the network slow?" Amazon Alexa can use Meraki's Dashboard API to control and answer questions all hands-free. Cisco Meraki's Shiyue Cheng created the Alexa skill to ask Alexa for the status of the network, monitor the traffic usage, and block fantasy football websites.
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Backup and restore your firewall rules instantly.

Performing a firewall audit or roll out of an organization-wide change is often a painful task for IT. Just because Meraki's dashboard makes network management simple doesn't mean network security rules are simple. Cisco Meraki's Mihail Papazoglou created a solution to help automate firewall PCI audits and bulk changes easier than ever.

This powerful python script can view firewall rules, create backups, and make bulk changes to Meraki MX Layer 3 firewall rulesets across multiple organizations, networks and templates. It can be used both as a command-line utility and as a back-end process to create custom management portals.
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Create a service and grow your business with Meraki's platform.

Splash Access is an IT company that provides a fully-hosted service with custom splash pages and integrations with marketing tools, hotel systems, and payment gateways. The founder of Splash Access, Tim Ormord, works exclusively with Meraki hardware because the APIs provide an engine for new product development.Learn about Splash Access

Cisco Meraki is now the world's largest manufacturer of Bluetooth Low Energy beacon gateways, built-in to the Meraki WiFi access points. Splash Push is a new product from Splash Access that connects Meraki customer's beacon with a mobile app for location-based notifications.
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